Milgram and Campbell

The Milgram experiment showed that, even in the worst situations where things are going horribly awry, people prefer to have an illusion of control instead of a total loss of control. Perhaps they feared that the person instructing them to press the switches would take over and press the switches; the instructor had already proven himself sadistic and heartless, and would probably press the switch for longer than absolutely necessary.

None of them bothered to ask "why am I here", to question the assumptions of the experiment and ask why a volunteer who won a lottery had to torture the one who lost.

None of them questioned the established setup - because they were following the Hero's Journey, in which someone takes you out of the world you know and gives you instructions for dealing with your new reality, becoming your mentor in that process, and Horrible Things Will Happen if you step off the path for one moment.

Resumés

A resumé is a structured poem which describes, in a rigidly traditional format, a person's work history and skills. It ends with a section which, roughly translated, means, "And if you don't believe me, here are three people who can each verify part of my story."

These poems are read by special literary critics, whose job is to verify whose poems are formatted better than the rest. Unlike other forms of literary criticism, the worst comment is no comment at all.